New year, new universe. An aging Chinese immigrant is just trying to finish her taxes. Instead she is continuously swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world. This surreal and exhilarating exploration of identity and existence won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese

Country: United States
Language: English

In the Nee brothers’ wildly comedic refresh of the genre, a reclusive romance novelist and her cover model are swept up in a cutthroat jungle adventure. World Premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.

Country: France
Language: French, Mandarin, English

Four young people fall in and out of love while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Country: France
Language: French

Presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Moly Kane’s short film Les Tissus Blancs/Sër Bi.

Aided by the intimate camera work of cult American cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time) and ebullient performances by two of French cinema’s most engaging young actresses, Souheila Yacoub (Climax) and Déborah Lukumuena (Divines), Volpé gives us a story of death that is bursting with life, a fresh take on the restless nights of Paris, and an ode to the power of female friendship. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.

Country: United States, France
Language: American Sign Language, English

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Siân Heder’s CODA won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the 94th Academy Awards.

Country: United States
Language: English

Cloverfield director Matt Reeves crafted an ambitiously grim Batman for our time, with Robert Pattinson as the titular dark detective and Zoë Kravitz as a fierce and focused Selina Kyle. Received three nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

Country: United States
Language: English

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease in Marvel’s latest anti-hero story.

Country: France
Language: French

Presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Vincent Maël Cardona’s short film Le Monde en Soi/The World Within.

Deploying a stellar soundtrack of European post-punk classics, Cardona juxtaposes the eternal thrills of first love and the frustrations of provincial life with a lovingly specific depiction of a bygone period, lending tremendous emotional immediacy to the lives of those who came of age at the dawn of the 1980s. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.

Country: Switzerland
Language: German

A few days in the lives of two young people on the verge of change. The Zürcher brothers follow their 2013 fest hit The Strange Little Cat with an emotional tale crafted in their signature cinematic language.
Winner of Best Director at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival.

This short film program is presented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema.

New French Shorts features six fiction, documentary, and animation stories from emerging filmmakers.

World Premiere, SXSW 2022. In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. | Country: United States | Language: English